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we saw it in new orleans after katrina. but we lost technology, we lost law and order. technology is a huge benefit of a huge risk. there are so many people who want to say kids cannot learn. some kids just cannot learn. so i would say do we really believe kids cannot learn? are there not opportunities for kids got to mark isn't our security -- for kids? when are we going to connect the dots? when are we going to break this system down and this mentality? i am excited because governor bush brings us together once a year to reflect on this and we get to hear people like you help us understand. please, help me understand. how to be connect the dots? -- how do we connect the dots? >> you are a man who did precisely that. you would not have the recovery school district, the results he had. you talk about ideas and people. asked about ideas. let me tell you, as important as ideas are, there are billions of ideas out there. in the hands of weak leaders and people who cannot execute, bad ideas and up on the cutting room floor. i have been waiting all day to say this -- people
we saw it in new orleans after katrina. but we lost technology, we lost law and order. technology is a huge benefit of a huge risk. there are so many people who want to say kids cannot learn. some kids just cannot learn. so i would say do we really believe kids cannot learn? are there not opportunities for kids got to mark isn't our security -- for kids? when are we going to connect the dots? when are we going to break this system down and this mentality? i am excited because governor bush...
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da. >> but -- >> wait, katrina. the problem we have is both the left and the right set down markers on the table and grover and his group said we can do it without raising taxes on the wealthy. >> we passed a bill. >> you cannot call for a sacrifice and say we won't -- we know the dynamics of medicare, medicaid and social security, the demography of this country cannot sustain those -- >> i want to make a deal with grover. i want to make a deal with grover. there are fair share ways to reduce the deficit. the short-term deficit isn't the main problem we have, but the republicans last week voted to keep the defense budget out of the cuts, out of the sequester. i would like to say to mr. norquist that the left and the right, citizens of conscious and sanity, should agree that the most loaded, defensive one is the defense budget and make cuts this that and do a financial transaction tax and those are the drivers of the problems of our economy, social security shouldn't by law cannot contribute to the federal deficit so
da. >> but -- >> wait, katrina. the problem we have is both the left and the right set down markers on the table and grover and his group said we can do it without raising taxes on the wealthy. >> we passed a bill. >> you cannot call for a sacrifice and say we won't -- we know the dynamics of medicare, medicaid and social security, the demography of this country cannot sustain those -- >> i want to make a deal with grover. i want to make a deal with grover. there...
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more than hurricanes katrina and rita. and 200,000 businesses, substantial many more businesses than hurricanes katrina and rita -rblgs where we lost about 18,000 businesses. part of it is this area is more densely populated. the storm was broader in its width if not more intense in some areas. it was broader geographically and the area is so densely populated. i think it is hard for people from less densely populated areas of the country to understand how much destruction can be leveled in a certain area. 200,000 businesses. and leaving more than 8.5 million families without power, heat or running water. many of those families have power, heat and running water now. not all. but just this week i picked up the phone, just as an anecdote but i think it is important, picked up the phone to call my good friend, the president of the urban league, former mayor of new orleans. the cell phone didn't answer. finally through a couple of connections i got through to him. their offices are in new york. he said, mary, i'm sorry i coul
more than hurricanes katrina and rita. and 200,000 businesses, substantial many more businesses than hurricanes katrina and rita -rblgs where we lost about 18,000 businesses. part of it is this area is more densely populated. the storm was broader in its width if not more intense in some areas. it was broader geographically and the area is so densely populated. i think it is hard for people from less densely populated areas of the country to understand how much destruction can be leveled in a...
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. >> shortly after our cameras left, hurricane katrina destroyed much of the gulf coast region. the elayn hunt correctional center became home to many inmates from nearby prisons that were evacuated due to damage. that's our report. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. >>> there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. lockup. >> i charge pelican bay with the following crimes. extortion, racketeering, police brutality. i charge pelican bay with racism, promoting inmate-on-inmate violence. how it was in the beginning it shall be in the end. the righteous shall live and the wicked shall perish. >> ever since it opened in 1989, pelican bay state prison in northern california has always had a reputation as one of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation. when we first visited the institution in 2000, it was under lockdown, still reeling from one of the worst prison riots in u.s. history. five years later, we went back inside pelican bay, where the staff has worked to curb gang activity and prevent violent outbreaks. but in an environme
. >> shortly after our cameras left, hurricane katrina destroyed much of the gulf coast region. the elayn hunt correctional center became home to many inmates from nearby prisons that were evacuated due to damage. that's our report. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. >>> there are 2 million people behind bars in america. we open the gates. lockup. >> i charge pelican bay with the following crimes. extortion, racketeering, police brutality. i charge pelican bay with...
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pointing out that aid was approved just two weeks after katrina. in new jersey tonight, with 72,000 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed, the governor wants $5 billion to rebuild homes. $8 billion to rebuild businesses. but the sandy package, totaling $60 billion, is stuck in washington. republicans accusing the president of loading up the bill with millions not related to the storm. >> this is part of this process of they throwing in everything but the kitchen sink because they know congress can't turn down a request for sandy. >> reporter: examples? $2 million for smithsonian museum leaking roofs in washington, d.c. but museum officials admit they had a leak before the storm. $10 million to repair prisons, but one of them is in west virginia, which sandy barely touched. and $13 billion to protect against future storms. >> we don't want to rebuild a tunnel so that the same storm water can flood in. we want to build it better so there's more protection. >> reporter: while they argue, janet peters wonders who is going to help. david kerley, abc
pointing out that aid was approved just two weeks after katrina. in new jersey tonight, with 72,000 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed, the governor wants $5 billion to rebuild homes. $8 billion to rebuild businesses. but the sandy package, totaling $60 billion, is stuck in washington. republicans accusing the president of loading up the bill with millions not related to the storm. >> this is part of this process of they throwing in everything but the kitchen sink because they know...
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hurricane isaac descended on louisiana tuesday night nearly seven years to the day that hurricane katrina struck. isaac wasn't such a monster, but it was still a killer. the country held its collective breath as the levees were tested yet again. in the end, the new levees saved new orleans, but plaquemines parish was flooded again. >> all the big rivers dry this year. >> by september, 66% of the u.s. was in some degree of drought. the dry weather is expected to continue into 2013 and this could become the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. and number one. super storm sandy. >> this historic super storm made landfall over the most populated areas of the united states. wind damage, power outages, storm surges, inland flooding, even snowstorms are threat thing the lives and homes of people from virginia to massachusetts. >> i've never seen devastation like this in my life. >> the surf here getting much more violent. >> curfew is underway right now. you are not to be on the streets. >> they're keeping an eye on the possibility of flooding. >> super storm sandy has crippled the nation
hurricane isaac descended on louisiana tuesday night nearly seven years to the day that hurricane katrina struck. isaac wasn't such a monster, but it was still a killer. the country held its collective breath as the levees were tested yet again. in the end, the new levees saved new orleans, but plaquemines parish was flooded again. >> all the big rivers dry this year. >> by september, 66% of the u.s. was in some degree of drought. the dry weather is expected to continue into 2013...
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by the time 29 years later after hurricane katrina, they were down to 3%. and a group of unemployed people decided to build power to bargain with the state for a path way back into that iconic american construction job that was a path and a career ladder to the middle class. so what they're strategy was, not to simply bargain with contractors, but to actually bargain with the housing authority. and what they've won this year is a preconstruction mandatory collective bargaining agreement on a set of construction sites. they're now going to enter unions and they were all going to ride up career ladders and turn it into apprenticeship programs and good jobs. >> this is something that i thought about which is -- if conservatives have used the states as laboratories to sort of go after unions, iet, progressives, could eyes the states as laboratories to strengthen online ons. there's stuff you can do at the state levels with domestic workers in california -- >> it's been a hugely wasted opportunity or opportunity not taken advantage of. if the right in union eyes
by the time 29 years later after hurricane katrina, they were down to 3%. and a group of unemployed people decided to build power to bargain with the state for a path way back into that iconic american construction job that was a path and a career ladder to the middle class. so what they're strategy was, not to simply bargain with contractors, but to actually bargain with the housing authority. and what they've won this year is a preconstruction mandatory collective bargaining agreement on a...
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the administration bungled the response for hurricane katrina to the point that when bush nominated har yet myers, republicans didn't fall in line. many privately and publicly called and forced to withdraw her nomination. bush's approval rating had dropped to a miserable 47%. it's a real question whether president obama will be able to forge a closer-working relationship with congress this time around. and then, of course, there's the second term scandal. clinton's second term dominated, basically ended after a year because the le wrkwinsky scanda began which completely derailed any agenda he hoped to push in that second four years. >> i have to go back to work on my state of the union speech. and i worked on it until pretty late last night. but but i want to say one thing. i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms. lewinsky. >> ronald reagan pushed through a tax overhaul, he also became embroiled in the iran contra affair. >> a few months ago, i told the american people i did not trade arms for hostages. my heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true. but the facts
the administration bungled the response for hurricane katrina to the point that when bush nominated har yet myers, republicans didn't fall in line. many privately and publicly called and forced to withdraw her nomination. bush's approval rating had dropped to a miserable 47%. it's a real question whether president obama will be able to forge a closer-working relationship with congress this time around. and then, of course, there's the second term scandal. clinton's second term dominated,...
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. >> george, when my little nephews left new orleans after katrina, i'll never forget what they said. "auntie, i don't hear gunshots at night." too many of our kids are living with guns. they are living with the fear of violence. they are dying sometimes in their homes, sometimes walking home from schools and while this tragedy is incomprehensible, you got to understand that there are too many of our babies being murdered every day senseless and that's why we need to have this conversation. >> we're having it. >> the question is what to do and what is possible to do. >> well, we ought to bring in mayor rahm emanuel of chicago. chicago is in an epidemic of violence with young, largely unparented, that is, no father in the home, adolescent males. now, that's a problem quite separate from this. another thing that we're going to do and makes one's heart sink, george, is this, we're goint to ratchet up the public places. they're already blighted by this. for generations people have been using the water on the mall to run little sailing boats. now the government in its wisdom has banned rem
. >> george, when my little nephews left new orleans after katrina, i'll never forget what they said. "auntie, i don't hear gunshots at night." too many of our kids are living with guns. they are living with the fear of violence. they are dying sometimes in their homes, sometimes walking home from schools and while this tragedy is incomprehensible, you got to understand that there are too many of our babies being murdered every day senseless and that's why we need to have this...
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the devastation as bad as we saw katrina for some individuals is terrible. >> and given katrina was awful but the massive population, the number of people impacted, and it takes a lot to bring new york to its knees and it was for that week, it was a very strange place. >> i like this picture of celebration in egypt and i think photos capture celebration better than videotape can ever do it. >> well i think what you see over here is, makes me think back to the arab spring when it started and the hopes then and when you have a democratic election you don't always get the results you want in a democracy but you go with that and even as we speak they're now protesting against morsi, but that picture really, there were a number of images of the celebration which i thought were powerful and showed that sort of pent up demand for that vote. >> is that what you look for in a photo, it's not just beautifully positioned, if you will or framed picture but it says more because of course you see that picture of celebrations around morsi, we now know how people feel about morsi and kind of invests that
the devastation as bad as we saw katrina for some individuals is terrible. >> and given katrina was awful but the massive population, the number of people impacted, and it takes a lot to bring new york to its knees and it was for that week, it was a very strange place. >> i like this picture of celebration in egypt and i think photos capture celebration better than videotape can ever do it. >> well i think what you see over here is, makes me think back to the arab spring when...
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a patient while still in his mother's womb. 20 weeks pregnant, katrina had received devastating news. >> she was carrying a fetus that had an absence of development of the left side of the heart. >> reporter: doctors at the children's hospital of philadelphia wanted to perform an operation on his heart, just the size of the grape. they had tried before. >> we held on to the glimmer of hope that maybe it was going to be this experimental procedure that would maybe give him a little hope. >> reporter: doctors inserted a tiny stent. doctors wouldn't know how successful they were until three months later when he was born. every cry, a welcome sound. and remember how we told you that no child had ever lived to 1? take a look at this. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: what are your dreams for him? >> grow up, have a family of his own. yeah, just grow old like the rest of us. >> reporter: a little fighter, looking forward to many more birthdays. dr. richard besser, abc news, east greenville, pennsylvania. >> cute kid and a lucky one. the heart, the size of a grape. incredible. the medic
a patient while still in his mother's womb. 20 weeks pregnant, katrina had received devastating news. >> she was carrying a fetus that had an absence of development of the left side of the heart. >> reporter: doctors at the children's hospital of philadelphia wanted to perform an operation on his heart, just the size of the grape. they had tried before. >> we held on to the glimmer of hope that maybe it was going to be this experimental procedure that would maybe give him a...
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hurricane isaac making landfall near new orleans on the eve of the 7th anniversary of hurricane katrina. isaac made landfall as category 1 hurricane. the slow moving storm drenched coastal areas. here is one of the hardest hit areas, plaquemines parish. it moved slowly inland inundating communities in arkansas as it passed. eerie skies over phoenix as a massive dust storm called a haboob blows in. winds 40 miles an hour bringing dust and sand from the desert. 2012 also saw the birth of a superstorm, a devastating hurricane that collided with a powerful cold system from canada that slammed the northeast. sandy made landfall in south jersey late october, flooding beach communities, submerging highways and washing iconic boardwalks into the observing shun. new york city's downtown skyline fell dark. in breezy point, queens, homes went up in flames. areas of long island, staten island, filled with debris. sandy claimed at least 100 lives and changed the landscape of the jersey shore. and just a week later, another blow, when the area was blanketed by snow, sleet and rain from a nor'easter.
hurricane isaac making landfall near new orleans on the eve of the 7th anniversary of hurricane katrina. isaac made landfall as category 1 hurricane. the slow moving storm drenched coastal areas. here is one of the hardest hit areas, plaquemines parish. it moved slowly inland inundating communities in arkansas as it passed. eerie skies over phoenix as a massive dust storm called a haboob blows in. winds 40 miles an hour bringing dust and sand from the desert. 2012 also saw the birth of a...
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and when we had the katrina disaster a few years ago, we did at least three supplementals for katrina. eventually we may spend more than $60.4 billion, but my view would be there are probably better ways to approach this than spending -- than appropriating that money right now as opposed to appropriating it later when we really know what it's for. this bill should not be viewed, either, as an opportunity for members of congress to fundamentally alter the disaster funding programs. there's a legislative process to do that. it shouldn't be the disaster funding bill that we use to change the law. we should have that debate at another time, and i hope we will. this, in the past, then, under the stafford act which was disaster funding act, we've limited what we could do just beyond replacing what the disaster took away. and we've added -- we've had a little too it, there was an argument you could make, well, if the disaster destroys this and there's a way to put it back within reason that makes it harder to destroy, we should do that. in fact, there was a cap, i think 7.5% was the most you
and when we had the katrina disaster a few years ago, we did at least three supplementals for katrina. eventually we may spend more than $60.4 billion, but my view would be there are probably better ways to approach this than spending -- than appropriating that money right now as opposed to appropriating it later when we really know what it's for. this bill should not be viewed, either, as an opportunity for members of congress to fundamentally alter the disaster funding programs. there's a...
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and after that we were trying to figure out something we could do, it was after katrina, and we were looking for something to do for ourselves. and a good friend of mine called me up, they're artists in our community, and they said what about speed art or something, and we're like, i don't know about that, you know? and so we kind of built on that, though, and we did a test in my barn with my friends and a teacher, and everybody had a ball. so we kind of knew we were on to something. and so we opened our one little store in louisiana which is on the north shore of lake pontchartrain, and people were driving two bridges to come. they were loving it. and renee wanted to move, open one in new orleans which is on the south shore of the lake, and i was like, oh, god, no. renee's 15 years younger than me, she's got a little more energy than me -- harris: i can't imagine that. [laughter] >> so she, um, so we opened up in new orleans, and it exploded. it exploded. harris: real quickly, because i want to get to the point, you're a small business owner. you employ people now. how many, and is
and after that we were trying to figure out something we could do, it was after katrina, and we were looking for something to do for ourselves. and a good friend of mine called me up, they're artists in our community, and they said what about speed art or something, and we're like, i don't know about that, you know? and so we kind of built on that, though, and we did a test in my barn with my friends and a teacher, and everybody had a ball. so we kind of knew we were on to something. and so we...
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hurricane isaac descended on louisiana tuesday night, nearly seven years to the day that hurricane katrina struck. isaac wasn't such a monster, but it was still a killer. the country held its collective breath as the the levees were tested yet again. in the end, the new levees saved new orleans, but plaquemines parish was devastated by flooding. number two, the drought that rivalled the dust bowl. >> all of those big rivers, all very dry this year. >> by september, 66% of the u.s. was in some degree of drought. the dry weather is expected to continue into 2013 and this could become the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. and number one, superstorm sandy. >> historic superstorm made landfall over the most populated areas of the united states. wind damage, power outages, storm surges, inland flooding, even snowstorms are threatening the lives and homes of people from virginia to massachusetts. >> i've never seen devastation like this in my life. >> the surf getting much, much more violent. >> curfew is under way right now. you are not to be on the streets. >> they're keeping an eye o
hurricane isaac descended on louisiana tuesday night, nearly seven years to the day that hurricane katrina struck. isaac wasn't such a monster, but it was still a killer. the country held its collective breath as the the levees were tested yet again. in the end, the new levees saved new orleans, but plaquemines parish was devastated by flooding. number two, the drought that rivalled the dust bowl. >> all of those big rivers, all very dry this year. >> by september, 66% of the u.s....
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when that bill gets to this house, i urge my colleagues to remember whether it was hurricane katrina or andrew or the earthquakes on the west coast we have set aside considerations in the budget oroff sets to do the decent and moral thing and help our constituents. let's do it again. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection so ordered. >> while the whole world is waiting to see if republicans say yes to extending middle class tax cuts, president obama moved ahead following threw on a campaign promise to help with student loan program thesms pay as you earn program, starting next friday, will accept applications and cap repayment at 10% of discretionary income. mr. courtney: an individual with $26,000 in income and $36,000 in debt will see their payments drop from $166 a month to $126 a month. you can apply for this online or contact your move congress. let's get away from this fi
when that bill gets to this house, i urge my colleagues to remember whether it was hurricane katrina or andrew or the earthquakes on the west coast we have set aside considerations in the budget oroff sets to do the decent and moral thing and help our constituents. let's do it again. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks....
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i moved back to ohio from louisiana after katrina and was reunited with my family. that would be a happy day. from joel griffith, my 89-year-old mom still with me. god bless her this christmas, making it the best. she has a heart condition. from debbie devlin, my favorite is my daughters putting the angel on the tree and baking cookies with them. i've got some christmas heros and i think we all do. i know you do. you were tell ming me about some before we began. two people that live the life of christ every day, they happen to be brothers and benedictine monks, father peter conley and be a dot glare conley who runs the abbott in still river, massachusetts. they are christians. they work every day for christ. they work every day to help the disadvantaged. the poor, the depressed, the people that need the love and grace of jesus christ. so they prove to be christmas heros each and every day. i know you have a christmas hero as well. >> rick: it's interesting hearing you say that. mine is another priest, father wassen. when i was in my 20s, i spent a year volunteer not
i moved back to ohio from louisiana after katrina and was reunited with my family. that would be a happy day. from joel griffith, my 89-year-old mom still with me. god bless her this christmas, making it the best. she has a heart condition. from debbie devlin, my favorite is my daughters putting the angel on the tree and baking cookies with them. i've got some christmas heros and i think we all do. i know you do. you were tell ming me about some before we began. two people that live the life of...
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i did teach politics and history, so i kept the interest going, but it was really katrina that put me down this path. i came back and said, we can do better than this. that is what started it. a passion for change and to be an advocate. i think all the people at this table share that. >> i hear you all talk about service -- when i was a girl, my mother was politically active, she went into the new hampshire legislative when i was 12. she would pile everybody in the station wagon and take us to a neighborhood and drop the kids off. we would run down going door-to- door with the leaflets. then she would pick us up at the other end and take us to the next three. but at the end of the day we got an ice-cream cone, so it was all worth it. [laughter] >> all of us had strong mothers. that is what we are hearing here. my mother was my hero come too. i think that is really important for us to understand that we have roles to play. >> that is true -- my father was very involved, not only in hiring the first women lawyers, training them -- i think what i have found, my male mentors through life
i did teach politics and history, so i kept the interest going, but it was really katrina that put me down this path. i came back and said, we can do better than this. that is what started it. a passion for change and to be an advocate. i think all the people at this table share that. >> i hear you all talk about service -- when i was a girl, my mother was politically active, she went into the new hampshire legislative when i was 12. she would pile everybody in the station wagon and take...